Gardening in Fridley, Minnesota
Posted August 18, 2012 by The Farmer
Cleaning Up the Small Garden Both the big garden in the back of the yard, and this small garden are all out of sorts. I have taken on a couple of extra consulting jobs to save a little extra money before school starts, and the garden got the short end of the stick. This morning [...]
Categories: Fridley Farmer
2 Comments.Posted May 14, 2012 by The Farmer
I was gone last week at a conference for work, and I feel like the garden is getting away from me! There is weeding, thinning, planting and other work to do as soon as possible. It’s going to be a busy couple of weeks here. Horseradish Root I love horseradish sauce on my meat sandwiches, [...]
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No Comments.Posted April 7, 2012 by The Farmer
I did it! I started planting. I put in the peas, onions, carrots, spinach, lettuce, corn and beets. I put them in on Wednesday (the 4th) but I just haven’t had a chance to write it up. Calvin, my almost 4-year-old was my helper buddy. He was very deliberate with planting, and put the seeds [...]
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No Comments.Posted March 14, 2012 by The Farmer
Happily, my garden orders will only be about $100 this year compared to $200 + dirt money we spent last year and the year before. The garden will be a little bit smaller which partly accounts for the decreased cost. The vine borers were so bad with the pumpkins last year that I’m not going [...]
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No Comments.Posted July 4, 2011 by The Farmer
Long overdue, a garden status update! I have been doing more working than blogging, and more fishing than gardening, but the plants have been doing pretty well overall. Stuff We’ve Been Eating We have been eating as much lettuce and spinach as we can and as many strawberries as have been ripe. The berries next [...]
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No Comments.Posted May 26, 2011 by The Farmer
On wednesday we started the gardening day by planting Ryan’s garden. He wanted watermelon more than just about anything, and so we planted 4 seeds of [planlink p=74 title='Moon and Stars'] watermelon. We had started some of these inside, but they got too much water (oops.) and died. His second most desired plant was corn, [...]
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No Comments.Posted May 24, 2011 by The Farmer
We still have a long ways to go, but the Fridley Farm is finally getting planted. Last night we managed to plant the beans. Some of the black dirt I added this year went to making garden strips along much of our fenced in back yard. We planted up close to the fence, and on [...]
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4 Comments.Posted March 14, 2011 by The Farmer
I have finally placed my seed orders for this year. I was planning on not waiting this long, but we were out of town a couple of times and so, here it is March already. We will still be adding a couple of things to this order. My 5 year old is extremely excited for [...]
Categories: Fridley Farmer, Something Interesting
2 Comments.Posted October 13, 2010 by The Farmer
Yes, we’re still eating summer squash. We are down to the last couple of summer squashes. These toast pizzas were good, and fast. Spaghetti sauce from a can with spinach, tomatoes, squash, banana peppers, jalapenos and cheese on top. The bread we used was fairly dense, and helped keep the sauce on top. I don’t [...]
Categories: Fridley Farmer, Something Interesting
No Comments.Posted August 9, 2010 by The Farmer
Like I said in the last post, the garden has been working overtime since late July. Here are some of the happenings we have been enjoying: Aside: Just for fun this post is scheduled to go live at 8/9/10 11:12 (using American dates). Tomatoes I have more than 25 tomato plants in 5 or 6 [...]
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